Reconstruction
by: Lillie Smith
Andrew Johnson
- Andrew Johnson was the 17th U.S president assumed office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
- Johnson served from 1865-1869. He was the first president to be impeached.
- After Lincoln was murdered Johnson restored the South to the Union and clashed with Radical Republicans.
- Republicans nullified Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction plan.
Thaddeus Stevens
- Stevens was a member of the United States House of Representatives.
- He served as a chairman of the joint committee on Reconstruction.
- Stevens was also instrumental in the Congressional Reconstruction plan to place the South under military occupation.
14th Amendment
- The 14th amendment granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans.
- The amendment was important in the Reconstruction of the American South after the war.
- "Half slave and half free" Abraham said.
15th Amendment
- 15th Amendment granted African-American men the right to vote.
- This was the 3rd and last Reconstruction Amendment.
- By 1869 amendment had been passed to abolish slavery and provide equal protection under the law.